Animals in the sea and the river, sentence 11

Piranhas mostly eat fish, insects and plants; attacks on people are rare and usually just nips, and the "cow in seconds" legend grew from a staged show with starved piranhas seen by US president Theodore Roosevelt.

Who acts: Piranhas, attacks, cow legend · What happens: eat, be, grow, stage, starve, see · To what, where: fish, starved piranhas

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals in the sea and the river» of the myths course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Piranhas, attacks, cow legend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Piranhas	piranha	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
2	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	3 eat	advmod
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 insects	punct
6	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fish	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 plants	cc
8	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fish	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 rare	punct
10	attacks	attack	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 rare	nsubj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 people	case
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 attacks	nmod
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 rare	cop
14	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 eat	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 nips	cc
16	usually	usually	ADV	_	18 nips	advmod
17	just	just	ADV	_	18 nips	advmod
18	nips	nip	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 rare	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 grew	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cow	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 legend	det
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 cow	punct
23	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 legend	compound
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 seconds	case
25	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 cow	nmod
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 cow	punct
27	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grew	nsubj
28	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	conj
29	from	from	ADP	_	32 show	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 show	det
31	staged	stage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 show	amod
32	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grew	obl
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 piranhas	case
34	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 piranhas	amod
35	piranhas	piranha	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 show	nmod
36	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 piranhas	acl
37	by	by	ADP	_	41 Roosevelt	case
38	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 president	compound
39	president	President	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Roosevelt	nmod:desc
40	Theodore	Theodore	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Roosevelt	compound
41	Roosevelt	Roosevelt	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 seen	obl:agent
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Piranhas	fish and insects and plants	mostly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient
2	is	present	attacks on people		rare property	tree rules
3	grow	past	the cow legend		from a staged show with starved piranhas	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from show=Patient
4	stage	participle				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	starve	participle				tree rules
6	see	participle		starved piranhas not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:myths:011-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river.lesson:11.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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